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- Oct 2024
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The dancehall deejays of the 1980s and ’90s who refined the practice of “toasting” (rapping over instrumental tracks) were heirs to reggae’s politicization of music. These deejays influenced the emergence of hip-hop music in the United States and extended the market for reggae into the African American community. At the beginning of the 21st century, reggae remained one of the weapons of choice for the urban poor, whose “lyrical gun,” in the words of performer Shabba Ranks, earned them a measure of respectability.
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During this period of reggae’s development, a connection grew between the music and the Rastafarian movement, which encourages the relocation of the African diaspora to Africa, deifies the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I (whose precoronation name was Ras [Prince] Tafari), and endorses the sacramental use of ganja (marijuana). Rastafari (Rastafarianism) advocates equal rights and justice and draws on the mystical consciousness of kumina, an earlier Jamaican religious tradition that ritualized communication with ancestors.
Diaspora: the jews living outside Israel (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diaspora)
Interesting musical roots for Reggae... Wonder if this is still present?
Mystical roots.
(Note, I give this the fiction tag because I might want to look into this mystical religion for fiction writing as inspiration)
Logical that marijuana (a drug) is correlated with the mystical concept of communicating with diseased spirits for marijuana makes you hallucinate (or perhaps it's demonic in nature?)
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the music became a voice for the poor and dispossessed
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Reggae evolved from these roots and bore the weight of increasingly politicized lyrics that addressed social and economic injustice.
Reggae is known to have depth and meaning to its tracks due to tackling of social and economic issue as well as injustice in general.
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In the mid-1960s, under the direction of producers such as Duke Reid and Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican musicians dramatically slowed the tempo of ska, whose energetic rhythms reflected the optimism that had heralded Jamaica’s independence from Britain in 1962
Reggae came to be during a time of subjugation to Britain?
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- Depth
- 1970s
- Subjugation
- Social Issues
- 1980s
- Musical Roots
- 1960s
- Mysticism
- Genres
- Oppression
- Politics
- Jamaica
- Conquest
- Communicating with the Dead
- Dancehall
- War
- Rastafarian Movement
- United Kingdom
- Injustice
- African Religion
- Hip-Hop
- 2000s
- Poverty
- Fiction
- Hallucination
- Haile Selassie I (Ras Tafari)
- Drugs
- Marijuana
- Meaning
- Music
- Occultism
- Diaspora
- Reggae
- Kumina
- 1990s
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